Works with faculty to develop custom metadata fields to creat searchability wihin small collections in the digtal repository. They also add fields for specific classes and specific assignments within a class. Sounds like a great service, but a lot of work.

Megan McShea, Archives of American Art

The problem is that there are no published standards for describing av materials at the non-item level.

Archivists often describe av format instead of by topic, which is not helpful.

Since there are only item level guidepines, many av records are over described.